Brain Food 2020

The return, and some changes

Thank you for signing up to Brain Food. After a month-long hiatus, I hope you will be happy to hear it is finally making its return.

I started Brain Food a little more than a year ago, as a series of short, daily musings on life, art, culture, literature and anything else that relates to the human condition. As we get bombarded daily with endless information, much of which may be incorrect, my goal for Brain Food remains for it to be quick, interesting and true.

For those of you who have been following Brain Food since day one, the biggest change you will see is that you will now only receive Brain Food from Monday to Friday. One of the greatest things I discovered this year is the importance of breaks, both for the body and for the mind. Writing Brain Food on weekdays will leave space for the weekends to work on other relevant projects, including longer thought pieces that are not suited to the newsletter format.

The other, more technical change, is that Brain Food has now migrated from Mailchimp to Substack, a platform that I am excited to start using, as it has been made with newsletter readers and writers in mind. Take a look around, you might find something else that interests you.

2019 went by in a flash, so today I plan on sitting down to write all the things I remember from a year that had it all. As we increasingly rely on technology to replace our memory, an act of remembering is a challenge we should all undertake, not only to solidify our past but also to understand it:

“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”

Virginia Woolf

Enjoy your last day of the decade.